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HOLDER FOR BILLS 0R NOTES AND COLLECTION ITEMS. No. 264,558, Patented Sept. 19, 1882.

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CALEB 0. NORTH, OF HUNTINGD'ON, PENNSYLVANIA.

HOLDER FOR BILLS OR NOTES AND COLLECTION ITEMS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 264,558, dated September 19, 1882,

Application filed May 6, 1882. (Model) I To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CALEB 0. NORTH, of Huntingdomin the countyof Huntingdon and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Holders for Bills or Notes and Collection Items, of which the following is a fnli, clear, and exact description.

The invention is more particularly designed for use in banks as a more convenient holder of bills receivable, also, if desired, of collection items, than the gum bands, spring-files, or like devices in ordinary use for the same purpose. n

It consists in a holder, of book form, having a series of stiff leaves or flaps, certainof said flaps being marked andindexed with the namesof the months and dates thereof, and forming what may be termed a daily index, in which notes falling shortlydue or due within a limited number of months may be filed, while others of said flaps, being indexed only to indicate.

the months of the year, form a monthly index, in which notes having longer to run may be temporarily filed, substantially as hereinafter described. 7

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawing, which forms part 'of this specification, and which represents a view in perspective of my improved bill or bill and collectionit'em holder when open.

A is the cover of the holder, which maybe ot' pocketbook form and have a strap, b, for

securing it when closed. Bound up with or within said holder are a series of stiff leaves or dividing-flaps, B, on the upper margins of which are printed on both sides the-names of three or any other given number of months,

.arranged so that unitedly said flaps take in months on the flaps B. Said combined flaps B and O are indexed, in a step-like manner, down their outer longitudinal margins with dates of the months, from 1st to 31st, inclusive, the interposed flaps 0 preferably having two consecu- Tbus indexed,

the dates on each of them. said flaps B and 0 form what is here termed the daily index, and arranged between each of them are narrower blank flaps, D. Bound in said holder, also, at back of or following up said dailyindex, is a monthly index, composed otflapsE, indexed with thenames ofthe months down their outer longitudinal margins, also, if desired, on oppositesides of their upper margins, each of said flaps indicating one, two, or more months, in consecutive order, and the whole of them taking in the several months of the year. Combined with these flaps E are also narrower flaps F, interposed between them.

Supposing the holder is intended to carry notes maturing within four months from date,

which is the arrangement here represented for it, then all notes having a longer time to run are put in their proper places at the back part of the holder-that is,in the monthly index where they are filed to correspond with the months they fall due in. Thus, for instance,- a note falling due in June, 1883, is temporarily filed between the flaps of the monthly index marked June and the adjacent blank flap v1), and is there allowed to remain until within two orthree months of its maturity, when it is taken ont,entered in the tickler, and placed in the daily-index portion of the holder following the flap B, on which is indicated June, or which has printed on it February, June, October.

The holder is used straight through and in regular order,thus: Supposing we are in January, 1.882, and have notes maturing in J annary, February, March, and April, then it will be proper to commence at the beginning of the holder and to go straight through it, placing each note or notes in at their respective maturin g dates. By the time the April notes are out it will be necessary to commence at the beginning of the holder on the May notes, which the usual gum bands or spring-files are, first, a great saving of labor, inasmuch as the notes need not be backed by the bank with the date of maturity, amount, number, and payers name; second, the notes or bills will be better preserved, for the reason that in case of reference, or when it is necessary to enter a credit there will he no pulling of them out and pushing them in; and, third, there will be a great saving of time, owing to the convenience of the device, and whereby any note, after ascertaining its date of maturity from the tickler, can be instantly found by placing the thumb on the proper index date of the daily-index portion of the holder.

\Vhen, too, the holder is used for filing collection items said items may be very readily placed to their proper dates by simply placing the thumb 011 the date and laying the item in without docking or folding. In some cases it may be necessary to use one of said holders exclusively for bills and another for collection items.

Having thus fully described my invention, What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A holder, of book form, for bills, notes, and other papers, having a daily index composed of a series of leaves or flaps, B and (J, with intervening leaves, D, the leaves 13 and 0 being indexed with the dates of the months along theirouterlongitudinal margins, and the leaves B, between which the leaves 0 are arranged, having on their upper exposed margin the months of the year spread over them, said holder having also bound at its back, within its cover, the monthly index composed of the leaves E, with intervening leaves, F, indexed as set forth, the whole constructed, arranged, and operated in the manner and for the purpose set forth.

CALEB 0. NORTH.

Witnesses:

JAMES 0. LONG, D. S. DRAKE. 

